What is fade?

  • (verb): Become feeble.
    Synonyms: languish
    See also — Additional definitions below

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Fade - Other Uses
... Hi-top fade, a hairstyle Fade, a measure used by Innova Discs to evaluate flying disc performance Fade, a characteristic of a shot in golf stroke mechanics ...

More definitions of "fade":

  • (noun): Gradually ceasing to be visible.
    Synonyms: disappearance
  • (verb): Lose freshness, vigor, or vitality.
    Example: "Her bloom was fading"
    Synonyms: wither
  • (verb): Become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly.
    Example: "The scene begins to fade"
    Synonyms: melt
  • (noun): A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer.
    Synonyms: slice, slicing

Famous quotes containing the word fade:

    “These pictures of time;
    They fade in the light of
    Their meaning sublime.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “One by one they appear in
    the darkness: a few friends, and
    a few with historical
    names. How late they start to shine!
    but before they fade they stand
    perfectly embodied,”
    —Thom Gunn (b. 1929)

    “Be near me when I fade away,
    To point the term of human strife,
    And on the low dark verge of life
    The twilight of eternal day.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)